July 7 : This Day in Music History Deaths

This Day in Music History
Deaths
July 7

1993 : Mia Zapata born Mia Katherine Zapata, was murdered (beaten, raped and strangled) in Seattle, Washington, at the age of 27. (Gits - lead singer)
See also: This Day in Music History Births (25 August 1965)

2001 : Fred Neil American folk singer-songwriter (1960s /early 1970s), born in Cleveland, Ohio, died of natural causes, battling skin cancer, in Summerland Key, Florida, at the age of 65.
See also: This Day in Music History Births (16 March 1936)

2006 : Syd Barrett English singer, songwriter, guitarist, and painter. After suffering from diabetes for several years, he died from pancreatic cancer at his home in Cambridge, at the age of 60. (Pink Floyd 1965/68, Solo 1968/72)
See also: This Day in Music History Births (6 January 1946)